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Particle-Vortex Duality of Hydrodynamics

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-08-03 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Equipped with the recently recognized symmetry structure of mixed states of matter and "strong-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking" (SW-SSB), we develop a quantum particle-vortex duality of emergent model-F and model-A hydrodynamics of 2d boson/rotor systems. This duality relation demonstrates that classical hydrodynamics of 2d bosons can be described in terms of the charge symmetry U(1)cU(1)_c, but also equivalently in terms of the dual (emergent) 1-form symmetry U(1)e(1)U(1)^{(1)}_e, as well as U(1)vU(1)_v associated with the conservation of vortices. This duality provides a bridge between the hydrodynamics of matter and magnetohydrodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.2608.02732,
  title  = {Particle-Vortex Duality of Hydrodynamics},
  author = {Cenke Xu and Matthew P. A. Fisher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.02732},
  year   = {2026}
}

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